aviation
Aerion AS3: A supersonic plane that will be able to link London and New York in less than an hour
The Arion company has just unveiled its very ambitious project: a supersonic plane capable of transporting 50 people between New York and London, all in less than an hour.
Recently announced by the company Aerion, this crazy project could revolutionize the civil and commercial aviation industry by the end of the decade. If the AS2 model (small supersonic business aircraft whose production should begin within 2 years) has already been in development for several years, the company recently joined forces with NASA and its Langley Research Center to develop this branch of supersonic flights, from Mach 3 to Mach 5 (more than 6,000 km / h!).
« AS3 is the next step in our long-term technology roadmap and will bring aircraft above Mach 3 to a wider audience […] Our vision is to build a future where humanity can travel between two points on our planet in no more than three hours. Tom Vice, Chairman and CEO of Aerion.
To achieve its goals, the aircraft manufacturer relies above all on the use of synthetic fuels and a direct air capture process to reduce CO2 emissions and on a new technology, removing the noise generated during the strike. sound barrier, in order to make supersonic flights unproblematic when flying over dwellings.
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